suppressor

1. A device which suppresses something, especially an electronic or mechanical device.

   someone who suppresses

2. A device which suppresses something, especially an electronic or mechanical device.

   A device added to the barrel of a firearm which reduces the noise and flash generated by firing the weapon.

3. A person who suppresses others, a tyrant.

4. A gene that suppresses the effect of another through epistasis.

   a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene)

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